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Have a look around the arena the next time you attend a boxing match or are watching a fight on television. There are pockets of unsold seats and wide swaths of the place that are empty and cold. The atmosphere is often void of excitement with stodgy old farts sitting at ringside with their gray-haired companions. The naysayers might be right this time when they tell you that if the sport of boxing is not dead - then it’s on life support.
Listen to the fans and writers and they’ll tell you that boxing is destined to go the way of men’s tennis and horse racing, which is to say, pretty much irrelevant. Wise boxing sage that he is, Stephen Gordon, Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Cyber Boxing Zone says it like this, "It saddens me so much to realize boxing is on its last legs as a sport in the United States. Boxing, like horse racing, has now become only an ‘event’ sport rather than a sport that draws daily interest from the general sporting public. The only time you hear or read real coverage of horse racing is during the Triple Crown stretch of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont. The rest of the year the sport is basically ignored by the media."
Boxing has so many ills that a medicine cabinet full of pharmaceuticals couldn’t cure what ails it at this point. The so-called "governing" bodies are either inept or corrupt -likely both. With super champions, champions emeritus and interim champions a flow chart written by Bill Gates would be of no help in trying to keep track of the plethora of title belts that pollute the sport. [details]
Listen to the fans and writers and they’ll tell you that boxing is destined to go the way of men’s tennis and horse racing, which is to say, pretty much irrelevant. Wise boxing sage that he is, Stephen Gordon, Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Cyber Boxing Zone says it like this, "It saddens me so much to realize boxing is on its last legs as a sport in the United States. Boxing, like horse racing, has now become only an ‘event’ sport rather than a sport that draws daily interest from the general sporting public. The only time you hear or read real coverage of horse racing is during the Triple Crown stretch of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont. The rest of the year the sport is basically ignored by the media."
Boxing has so many ills that a medicine cabinet full of pharmaceuticals couldn’t cure what ails it at this point. The so-called "governing" bodies are either inept or corrupt -likely both. With super champions, champions emeritus and interim champions a flow chart written by Bill Gates would be of no help in trying to keep track of the plethora of title belts that pollute the sport. [details]
SAD reality dude.
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